Flags are being flown at half-staff across Florida on Thursday to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Governor Ron DeSantis on Wednesday instructed that flags ...

Flags are flying at half-staff June 12 across Florida as a "mark of respect" for those who died or were affected by the Pulse Nightclub shooting.

Kim Reynolds ordered all flags be lowered from sunrise to sunset Friday. All flags on public grounds will be at half-staff.

Gov. Mike DeWine ordered some of Ohio's U.S. and state flags to be flown at half-staff Tuesday to honor slain Morrow County Sheriff's Office deputy Daniel Sherrer.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Flags will be flown at half-staff all across Florida on Thursday in honor of Pulse Remembrance Day. Gov.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has ordered flags to fly at half-staff six times in May, for a total of 20 days so far. Here's why.

To position the flag at half-staff, first raise the flag to the peak ... unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. —When a flag is so tattered that it ...

Flags are flown at half-mast on ships and at naval stations. On shore, flags are flown at half-staff, meaning the flagpole is attached to a building or stuck in the ground. What are Jimmy Carter's ...

Flags will be a half-staff in Wisconsin and across the ... incorrectly using the term that refers to flags being flown halfway up the mast on a ship, not a flag pole. "They think it’s so great ...

Typically, the difference between the two is where the flag is being flown. Half-mast refers to flags flown on ships, while half-staff is used for flags flown on land. There are specific holidays ...

(Half-mast and half-staff are essentially the same thing, though the former refers to the display of a flag on a ship or boat.) If you’re flying the U.S. flag, it should be lowered to half-staff ...

You might notice flags around California flying at half-staff or half-mast, as incorrectly called when not on ships. Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the gesture in memory of a California Department of ...